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Max Martin
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Swedish record producer and songwriter
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Max Martin, born Karl Martin Sandberg on February 26, 1971, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish composer, songwriter, and record producer. He began his work period in 1985 and is associated with genres including pop music, dance music, contemporary R&B, and rock music. Martin has been affiliated with Jive Records and holds citizenship in Sweden. He speaks and writes in both Swedish and English.
His professional recognition includes the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, the Polar Music Prize, and H. M. The King's Medal. He has also received a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Martin was educated at Södra Latin and is represented by STIM as his copyright representative.
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Film & TV
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Max Martin was born on February 26, 1971 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden as Martin Karl Sandberg.
Known for
- ABBA: 50 Years of Pop — Self2024
- E-Type: The way I wanna live — Self (archive footage)2023
- This Is Pop — Self (archive footage)2021
- Miss Americana — Self2020
- Det svenska popundret — Self2019
- The Making of a Song — Self2017
- Justin Bieber's Believe — Self2013
- Diary — Self2000
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,874
- Total plays
- 10,816
1) The millennial heir to Sweden's tradition of frothy, incessantly catchy pop, Max Martin wasn't an international star like ABBA, Roxette, or Ace of Base. But as a songwriter and producer, Martin spearheaded the late-'90s teen pop revival by crafting a ubiquitous string of worldwide hits for Britney Spears, *NSYNC, and The Backstreet Boys, among many others. Martin was born Martin Sandberg on February 26, 1971, and grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm; as a teenager <a href="https://www.last.fm/
Key facts
- Born
- Karl Martin Sandberg , ( 1971-02-26 ) 26 February 1971 (age 55) , Stockholm , Sweden
- Other name
- Martin White
- Occupations
- Record producer songwriter
- Years active
- 1984–present
- Spouse
- Jenny Petersson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 )
- Awards
- Full list
- Genres
- Pop dance R&B rock
- Labels
- Jive Cheiron RCA Capitol LaFace Island Location Songs Bertelsmann Atlantic Maratone MxM
- Formerly of
- It's Alive
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Sandberg
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Occupation
- record producer
- Educated at
- Södra Latin
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Swedish
- Genre
- pop rock
- Record label
- Jive Records
- Image
- Max Martin.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1971-02-26
- Commons category
- Max Martin
- pseudonym
- Max Martin
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- copyright representative
- STIM
- birth name
- Karl Martin Sandberg
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Martin Sandberg (born 26 February 1971), known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish record producer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in the late 1990s with songwriting credits on a string of hit singles, such as Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time" (1998), the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" (1999), Celine Dion's "That's the Way It Is" (1999), and NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me" (2000).
Martin has written or co-written 30 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles; 28 of which he has produced or co-produced, an all-time record for the chart as of March 2024. His credits include Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (2008) and "Roar" (2013), Maroon 5's "One More Night" (2012), Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" (2014) and "The Fate of Ophelia" (2025), Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?" and "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)" (2024), Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's "I Don't Care" (2019) and The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" (2019) and "Save Your Tears" (2020). "Blinding Lights" is the best performing song of all time according to the chart. Martin has written the second-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32), having surpassed John Lennon (26) with his 27th number one in March 2024. Many of Martin's hits were used in the 2019 jukebox musical & Juliet.
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